Winning Ponies

With all of the great races from coast to coast, we have called on 2 professional handicappers to bring us home some winners. 'Money won is twice as sweet as money earned,'' Fast Eddie Felson (played by the late Paul Newman) says in The Color of Money. Rich Eng will handicap the return of Paynter in Grade 2 $200,000 San Diego Handicap at Del Mar and then go to the east coast to Monmouth Park for the Grade 1 $1,000,000 Haskell Invitational. Our second handicapper Rich Ruda is a lifelong horseplayer, who has been the on-air handicapper for Thistledown for 10 years. On Saturday, Thistledown will feature the state's top stakes race, the Grade 3 $100,000 Ohio Derby. Rich Ruda will also break down the top races at Saratoga including the Grade 1 $300,000 Prioress Stakes; the Grade 1 $600,000 Diana Handicap and the Grade 2 $600,000 Jim Dandy Stakes featuring the return of Belmont Stakes winner Palace Malice.